On Friday 22 April 2005 05:18 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-04-21 15:49, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think I'll ever understand how a professional coder could come > > home from work and code for a volunteer project. (I know that when I > > get home from a day of carpentry the last thing I want to do is work > > on my own house.:) > > I believe it's easily explained by the tendency of business-related > source to be "hacked in a rush" to match deadlines combined with the > need of programmers to work with software they like and can be proud > for. > > A very good article I've recently read that attempts to answer exactly > this sort of question was: > > http://www.openxtra.co.uk/articles/why-do-people-write-open-source-software >.php
Thanks Giorgos, ..that answers a lot of the questions I had when I posted my "Why do you do it?" msg a while back. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Joe Warner <rootman> BSD/Computer Addict Greater Utah BSD User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gubug.org "Who the heck is this toor guy anyway?"
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